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DENVER (April 11, 2012) – For the first time, Colorado Springs made the list of top 25 cities with the most Energy Star buildings in the country – ranking 24th. In 2011, the nearly 16,500 Energy Star certified buildings across America have helped save nearly $2.3 billion in annual utility bills and have prevented greenhouse gas emissions equal to emissions from the annual energy use of more than 1.5 million homes.
"More and more organizations are discovering the value of Energy Star as they work to cut costs and reduce their energy use," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "This year marked the twentieth anniversary of the Energy Star program, and today Energy Star certified buildings in cities across America are helping to strengthen local economies and protect the planet for decades to come."
Colorado Springs school districts participate in the Colorado Association of School District Energy Managers (CASDEM), which is an organization that focuses on energy issues in school districts in Colorado. This organization is why Colorado ranks 6th in the nation for Energy Star certified schools. Forty-five schools in Colorado Springs have earned the Energy Star label. CASDEM was formed to provide a network for public school district employees responsible for energy management.
Energy use in commercial buildings accounts for nearly 20 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at a cost of more than $100 billion per year. Commercial buildings that earn EPA's Energy Star must perform in the top 25 percent of similar buildings nationwide and must be independently verified by a licensed professional engineer or a registered architect. Energy Star certified buildings use an average of 35 percent less energy and are responsible for 35 percent less carbon dioxide emissions than typical buildings. Fifteen types of commercial buildings can earn the Energy Star, including office buildings, K-12 schools, and retail stores.
Launched in 1992 by EPA, Energy Star is a market-based partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. This year marks Energy Star's 20th anniversary. Over the past 20 years, with help from Energy Star, American families and businesses have saved about $230 billion on utility bills and prevented more than 1.7 billion metric tons of carbon pollution. Today, the Energy Star label can be found on more than 60 different kinds of products and more than 1.3 million new homes.
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Four-column Hydraulic Metal Stamping Press for patent design 1600 TON Deep Drawing Hydraulic Press 1600 ton for four column
1. The press is available up to 1~2000 Tons capacity as per customer's individual specifications and requirements. Each press is designed through Finite Element Structural Analysis and optimization to assure high strength and rigidity. High capacity press is preferred in Four Column structure.
2. The press is equipped with advanced and systemized Taiwan hydraulic system featuring oil leakage resistance, anti-vibration, low power consumption, low noise level and easy maintenance.
3. Four columns are made of forged steel with hard chromium plated on the surface featuring good wear-resistance.
4. The press fully meets CE safety requirements. Two side locking cylinders lock the slide when it reaches top position. And two sets of light curtain sensors are fitted in the front and rear that will stop the machine when human body carelessly enters the working area.
5. Mitsubishi PLC and 7 / 10 inch Taiwan Weinview touch screen make the machine easy for operation and specification adjustable.
6. Each press is manufactured under strict quality control management with good quality components from Japan, France, Germany, USA and Taiwan to assure the best performance and accuracy.
1. Moving Bolster / Die Change Trolley
2. T-slots on slide or bolster
3. Stamping Dampers for shock proof while stamping
4. Ejectors on slide or bolster
Deep draw press is applied in production techniques, like deep drawing, stamping, cutting, bending, flanging of metal sheet.
Particularly applied in the following industries:
1) Automobile Industry: Steel ring, vehicle body, chasis, axle housing, fuel tank, door, wheelbarrow tray and more.
2) Household Appliance Industry: Components for air conditioner, refrigerator, washing machine, microwave oven, electric cooker etc.
3) Kitchen Ware Industry: Stainless steel utensil, LPG cylinder, cooking bench, etc.
4) Aluminum Cookware.
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City: Ma'anshan
Province/State: Anhui
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Moving Your Website to A New Web Host Is Easy with Effective Tips
Moving Your Website to A New Web Host Is Easy with Effective Tips
If you have a business website, whether small or anything personal that is dedicated to your interest or a very large site that is used to promote your services or products, then there may be times when you might be disappointed with the service of your current hosting provider and look for a change. No one would like to stay connected with a web hosting partner riddled with incompetent offerings. If you are frustrated because of frequent downtimes and poor support services, then it is the right time to switch to another proficient benefactor instead of praying for things to fall according to your business plans.
The process of choosing your new web hosting India service provider may be a tedious task and a successful transfer is the one that moves your fully functional business site to another host smoothly and with zero downtime. Moving your website is just something very similar to moving your home to a new location. In this blog, I will share with you the stepwise guide that will make your switch swift and secure for an enduring tomorrow.
Search for a new web host:
The first step that you should take before you make a switch is to find a new web hosting company that is reliable and offers better services. However, determining which service provider has the right capabilities to meet your specific business needs is not at all an easy job, but the best way is to compare the services of the most top five reliable brands in respect to configurations, security, resiliency, and pricing. It is suggested that you register your domain to a third party provider so that if in any case, you need to switch again, your domain can easily be shifted without any potential complications.
Take a backup of all your website files:
The next step is to take a proper backup of all your website databases and files from your old server. This is the step that is very similar to packing up all your assets from your old house so that they are taken intact to the new location. For static sites, simply copy the old file structures and you can use the basic FTP application, Smart FTP or File Zilla for graphics and etc.
If your dynamic site uses databases, then it is important to import the data from your system by using any third party software that is available with the hosting control panel. Finally, ensure that the backup files are safe and your website runs with all the features and functionalities on the new server.
Add email accounts to the new server:
To get your email accounts on the new server, the first step that you should take is to add your accounts on the new server before switching the DNS. You can login to your new account by using the information that is provided by the new host. And then set up all your email accounts on the new server that were there on the previous server. Make sure to add a "catchall" address so that the emails don't bounce if you forget to add some. Since you will have two websites running for a short time, it is good to have two accounts operating concurrently, so that you don't miss any emails. Send test emails to check how it works.
Move your domain name:
In case your domain name is registered with your web hosting services, then you will require to move it. Your host will help you with the instructions that will specify where to send the user. Moving your DNS record to your new servers will ensure that your visitors will be able to find your site easily rather than having an error or misdirect. Change the DNS name servers according to the one that you have received in your welcome email from your new Windows hosting or Shared hosting service provider. You may have to wait for about 24 – 48 hours for the migration to be completed successfully.
Move files to the new server:
Once you have received your login information from your new web hosting service provider, you can start to move your files and be prepared not to make any changes to the site for the coming few days. You can easily upload all your files, but while uploading your databases, ensure that you install the web apps on the new server that you were already using on the old server.
Wait for the change:
Once all the steps are followed and you have requested to move your DNS record, it's time to wait for the switch that can happen anytime between a few hours to an entire day to take live. During this process, both your new as well as your old site will remain functional. Once you go live with your new web hosting service provider, you can inform your former provider to cancel the subscribed hosting plan.
Thus to conclude, it can be said that if your site looks the way it did before and you get and receive emails, then your new hosting company is your perfect opportunity to grow your business. But remember there are many things that might go wrong and your hosting partner should be able to help you with any issues that are unplanned.


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Teaching a Child with Down Syndrome: In the Beginning
When my husband and I first contemplated homeschooling our son with Down syndrome, we were overwhelmed. Even though I had taught many children to read, could I teach my son with special needs? Didnt he need a teacher with special training in this area? What curriculum would I use?
The Lord brought Psalm 61:2 to mind: "When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I." After much prayer and searching, the answer came. The Lord had blessed us with this special child. He would give us what we needed to train our son according to His will and in His perfect timing.
After we were committed to homeschooling, the next step was deciding on curriculum. I consulted friends who were homeschooling their child with special needs and others that I knew in the field of special education. The conclusion was that there was no one right way. What was best for one child was not for another. However, there were some guidelines that helped to form an anchor in our search for curriculum. We wanted to find materials that
are Christian in nature to help build character and present godly role models
give strategies for teaching children with Down syndrome
are phonics based but also teach sight words
are multi-sensory
will hold our son's interest and provide fun learning
provide a complete curriculum
We began teaching our son to read using the book Teaching Reading to Children with Down Syndrome by Patricia Logan Oelwein (published by Woodbin House). This book was a great beginning. It gave strategies for reading, spelling, and writing. Even though it was not a complete curriculum, we could apply the strategies to any curriculum we chose.
After looking at several curriculums, we decided to use the BJU Press materials. They met all the criteria we were looking for, and I was familiar with the scope and sequence. But we would have to adapt the materials. Adapt meant we had to spread some lessons over the course of two or three days. Adapt meant we used some different strategies to learn a particularly difficult skill. Adapt meant we did more drill games. Adapt meant I spent time at the computer designing sheets to provide further practice. In conclusion, adapting a curriculum meant more work, work to mold a curriculum to the shape of our sons style of learningmainly visual/kinesthetic.
We look at our son and remember that God does not make mistakes. His gifts are perfect. We are to be good stewards of the precious gifts God has given to us: all of our children. We need to tap first into the resource God has given to us in His Word for raising our children to serve Him. Then, we, as parent-teachers, must tap into the resources that will unlock the door of learning for our special needs child.


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BisonsTV: chat with Collins
While the Mets are in mini camp, we had a chance to get a 'mini preview' of what is ahead for the Bisons this season.
Mets minor league coordinator Terry Collins provides some insight on www.bisons.com as he gets a feel for the system, players and what needs may be in New York.
Don't forget Kevin Burkhardt has reports from Mets mini camp in Ports St. Lucie on SNY starting at 10 p.m. He'll have comments and conversation from Johan, Ollie and Jerry tonight.


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Using a marinade like this one is a good way to add flavor and richness to food without adding too many calories. Serve the tuna with steamed rice, and offer Japanese beer or iced jasmine tea to drink.
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- Makes 6 servings
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons oriental sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 6 5-ounceahi tuna steaks (about 1 inch to 1 1/4 inches thick)
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- Ginger, Miso and Cilantro Sauce
- Fresh cilantro sprigs
- Whisk lemon juice, sesame oil, soy sauce and pepper in small bowl to blend. Place tuna steaks in 13 x 9 x 2-inch glass baking dish. Pour marinade over tuna steaks; turn to coat. Cover and refrigerate 3 hours, turning occasionally.
- Remove tuna from marinade. Spray large nonstick skillet with vegetable oil spray. Heat skillet over high heat. Add 3 tuna steaks to skillet and cook about 3 minutes per side for medium-rare. Transfer tuna steaks to plate. Tent with aluminum foil to keep warm. Repeat with remaining 3 tuna steaks.
- Transfer tuna steaks to plates. Spoon Ginger, Miso and Cilantro Sauce atop tuna. Garnish with cilantro and serve.


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Title Alliance Ltd, an ESOP company specializing in title joint ventures, announced today that they have appointed Michele Rist as Pennsylvania State Manager for Title Alliance and their affiliates. Rist was promoted to Corporate Trainer in November of 2015 and will celebrate her 20th anniversary with the company in May.
Rist is a long time member of the Title Alliance family. She graduated from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with a degree in Economics. Her career began in their Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania operation in 1997 as a Sales Associate. From that position, she was promoted to Regional Sales Director and ultimately to District Manager, overseeing 12 of Title Alliance's joint ventured operations. In this position, Rist was responsible for overseeing daily operations, measuring key performance indicators and assisting with sales initiatives and closing coverage. Rist then was promoted to V.P. of Title Alliance where her focus was on selling joint ventures. In 2006 Rist became the Director of Sales & Operations for one of Title Alliance's lender based joint venture affiliates. In 2010 Rist moved to manage and launch the T.A. of Limerick operation in Limerick PA until her promotion to Corporate Trainer in November of 2015.
As Corporate Trainer, Rist worked alongside of Training Director Erika O'Brien Mason to create an onboarding experience for new team members. She emphasized what sets Title Alliance apart from the competition and worked to assure that they received a warm welcome to the Title Alliance Family. Rist developed and facilitated the initial contact program with each new employee where she reviewed and covered an introduction to the Title Alliance culture and other housekeeping items.
"Michele is an incredible asset for our company," says Jim Campbell, CEO for Title Alliance. "Her experience in multiple facets of the business make her a strong mentor and leader." He concludes, "Michele will work with each of our managers to provide mentorship, guidance and empowerment so that they can really own their joint ventures. I am excited to see how our flagship region, Pennsylvania, grows."
"I thought long and hard about the opportunity before accepting," says Rist. "It was important to me to make certain that I fully understood the expectations of the position and the company goals." She continues, "Having sat in a desk running my own joint venture, I understand the pressures that the teams experience on a daily basis and I am able to relate to them on a very different level. I am excited to watch each of our managers and their teams grow, and to help them achieve their personal and professional goals."
Title Alliance, Ltd, an ESOP Company is located in Media, PA and has been creating RESPA compliant title joint ventures since 1983 with lenders, mortgage bankers, realtors, builders and credit unions. Their roots date back to 1948 when their first agency, which is still in existence today, was formed. For more information or to find out how a Title Alliance's partnership or title management skills could benefit you visit them online or contact Lindsay Smith at 800-220-3901 x 165.
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Milwaukee Area Technical College Fills the Gap
Milwaukee Area Technical College, known as MATC, is a comprehensive technical college that offers educational and training opportunities and services to its diverse community through collaboration with partners to advance the lives of its students.
MATC's goal is to train students for the skills needed to fill jobs in the Milwaukee area and beyond. It offers 170 career-centered programs, including degrees, diplomas and apprenticeships. Within the precision machining field, MATC offers programs for CNC Swiss turning, CNC setup operations, CNC programming and a 2-year technical program for Tool & Die.
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"Every program that the college offers has an advisory committee with representatives from companies in those industries," says Tom Olson, MATC machining instructor. "These committees help guide our programs, and they grow and change as the community's needs change. In my 25 years here, I've seen the programs change with the natural transitions in the field."
According to Mr. Olson, the average student in MATC's multiple precision machining programs is between 26 and 28 years old and is looking to strengthen skills. Prospective program participants must pass a basic pre-entry exam to begin the programs.
"We have students from a variety of backgrounds and ages in our programs," Mr. Olson says. "Overall, we like to have students who are motivated to learn and improve."
The programs instruct on basic machine and problem-solving skills.
"In the machine labs, we can teach students how to set up a machine, change tools, read a micrometer and adjust equipment," Mr. Olson explains. "But we can't teach production because it's not economically possible to run production in a school setting."
MATC machining students learn the value of the equipment and tooling, and tour a machine shop.
"I tell the students that when they're on the machine shop tours, they should ask any questions they have since they're there to learn. The tour is a great way for them to see real work environments," Mr. Olson says. "We're still facing that stigma of shops being dark, dirty places. But in reality, when you visit a modern machine shop, they're bright and clean."
MATC's machining program advisory committees have several local PMPA members on them, helping guide the program, allowing their shops to be toured, hiring program graduates and continuing training for their current employees.
"We have a great relationship with PMPA that we look forward to continuing," Mr. Olson says. "Local PMPA members help us send students to trade shows and conferences as well as help out with regular program needs. They regularly call and ask for me to send them our graduates."
MATC fills the education and training gaps in cooperation with PMPA members by educating new machinists and training current employees in increasing skills and knowledge.
"I would encourage other PMPA members to talk with area technical colleges to work together for well-trained employees. We fill open slots during classes for continued training of industry members who want to upgrade their skills," Mr. Olson says. "Local chapter members can work together to arrange training with local schools to share costs. There are many options that technical colleges, like MATC, can offer to PMPA members who are looking to have well-trained employees."
Milwaukee Area Technical College is located at 700 W. State Street, Milwaukee, Wis. 53233. Phone: 414-297-6286. Website: matc.edu.


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An increase in the tax rate would be a more honest way for the state to raise revenue.
Addiction, whether to drugs, alcohol or gambling, ruins the lives of the addicted and everyone around them. Just last week, an Everett woman was shot to death, allegedly by her ex-husband, in an argument supposedly fueled by her addiction to lottery scratch tickets.
Unlike a person with an addiction to illegal drugs, Dottie Philbrook was able to feed her obsession at any corner store in any community in Massachusetts. Lottery tickets are a booming business for the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission.
In the last fiscal year, the sale of instant scratch tickets brought in $3 billion to the state. That is in addition to the $775 million raised by Keno, and $334 million raised through The Numbers Game.
Just as it is with slot machines so popular at casinos, it's all about instant gratification. One pull of the lever, one scratch of the number, and lives are changed forever - at least that's the hope of those spending their money on a dream.
The real winner in all cases is the "house" - the casino owners and, dare we say, the state treasury.
Treasurer Tim Cahill points to the millions of dollars distributed to local communities because of the state lottery. But at what cost?
Statistics show that if all the money spent in the last year on lottery tickets in Massachusetts were divided among all residents, each would have spent $700. Divide the total according to community and that number is significantly higher for some towns. Salisbury, for instance, sold $28 million in lottery products last year, $3,425 per resident. How much did Salisbury receive in state lottery aid? A total of $626,191.
Framingham stores had lottery sales of $39 million. It received in return $3.2 million. Bellingham outlets sold $18 million, and got back just $1.7 million. Southborough lottery outlets sold $4 million in tickets and the town received a paltry $430,000 in return.
In almost all cases, significantly more money was spent on sales in each community than was returned by the state. It just doesn't add up.
A good portion of lottery proceeds pay for the cost of running the lottery, of course. Advertising is expensive, and the Massachusetts Lottery advertises extensively in its efforts to separate gullible taxpayers from their money. "You can't win if you don't play," say the ads, and that's true.
And, of course, the lottery pays its winners, big and small.
But it seems that, in efforts over the years to keep taxes down, the state has become addicted to gambling as a major source of revenue, and the increasingly favorable support for a casino in Massachusetts supports that stance.
Legislators gambled and won. Taxpayers are willing to overlook the obvious - they get little in return for the money they spend on lottery tickets, just as it will be if a casino locates here.
An increase in the tax rate would be a more honest way for the state to raise revenue.


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New details uncovered about suspect's arrest
Team 5 Investigates has uncovered new information about the wild shootout that led up to the arrest of the surviving Marathon attack suspect Dzohkar Tsarnaev.
Sources tell Team 5 Investigates' Kathy Curran that an investigation is under way into whether a Massachusetts state police trooper was firing at Boston police officer Kenneth Conley and state police Lt. Dan Wells who were on patrol together in an unmarked state police truck.
Conley was at one time wrongly accused for his role in the beating of fellow police officer Michael Cox in the 1990s.
Sources told Team 5 Investigates more than 10 rounds were fired at the officer and trooper from behind during the manhunt. The truck was hit but no one was hurt.
State police spokesman Dave Procopio confirms they're looking at all of the ballistics at that scene and the Middlesex District Attorney's Office is investigating.
A separate investigation is also under way to see if MBTA transit police officer Richard Donohue was hit by friendly fire.
Team 5 Investigates has also learned the investigation into the Marathon bombings took federal investigators to a Williams-Sonoma store in Salem, N.H., after receiving a tip from a store clerk. The clerk said two young men visited the store within the past 6 months looking for a certain type of pressure cooker.
No sale was made but after the Marathon bombings the clerk called the federal tip line but could not positively identify the men as the bombing suspects.
A spokesperson for Williams-Sonoma said they've fully cooperated with the investigation.


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By Tessa Raebeck
Ask a college student when they last went on a real date and most will stare at you dumbfounded.
Like pay phones and typewriters, traditional notions of dating are altogether extinct on college campuses. Instead, America's young people are fully immersed in what Dr. Donna Freitas calls "the hookup culture," a sexual mindset that has replaced courtship, dating and intimacy with casual no-strings-attached encounters known as hooking up.
While academics and young adults alike maintain the hookup culture provides for increased freedom and choices, others, Dr. Freitas among them, say its dominance of sexual encounters has left a generation of young adults frustrated, insecure and unfulfilled.
On Monday, Dr. Freitas will give a talk on "the hookup generation" at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton. An author and religious studies professor at Boston University, Dr. Freitas has completed eight years of clinical research and analysis on sexual activity among young adults and has nearly 20 years of personal experience on college campuses.
In her most recent book, "The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy," Dr. Freitas found college students across genders, religious affiliations and sexual preference were proponents of the hookup culture in public, but expressed a much different attitude in private.
"I have learned from my own students," Dr. Freitas, said in an interview on Friday, "that talking about sex and relationships and hooking up on campus — they lied about it a lot. So privacy was really a priority."
Discussions with her own classes, she writes, revealed "an intense longing for meaning — meaningful sex, meaningful relationships and meaningful dates."
Observing this dissatisfaction with hookup culture led her to explore the topic further. While researching her book, Dr. Freitas analyzed thousands of students at public and private, secular, Evangelical and Catholic campuses. She administered 2,600 surveys, conducted 112 interviews and collected 108 journals.
"I was sort of taken aback by the level of participation," said Dr. Freitas. "I think the amount of participation I got — and very, very quickly once the study was open — is just finding in itself of how much students were looking for a safe, private space to talk about this stuff where there weren't any social repercussions."
She discovered that while most of the young men and women she encountered were "very pro 'the hookup' in theory," they were privately struggling with the lack of personal connection and longing for other options.
"Hookups have existed throughout human history, of course," writes Dr. Freitas, "but what is now happening on American campuses is something different. College has gone from being a place where hookups happened to a place where hookup culture dominates students' attitudes about all forms of intimacy."
Dr. Freitas found no outstanding differences between Catholic and secular universities, although the attitude was completely different on Evangelical campuses, where abstinence prevailed and there was no viable hookup culture.
One of the biggest surprises in the research, she said, was that both male and female respondents shared the same feelings of dissatisfaction.
"I assumed, like most people do," she said, "that when I sat down with guys, they would tell me how great hookup culture was for them, but what I got was remarkably similar views between men and women."
The only difference she saw was, while women felt it was acceptable to publicly express criticism of the hookup culture, "men felt like they absolutely could not do that; they had to go along with it or risk their masculinity."
Some respondents were in fact in long-term relationships, but couples started as a "random hookup" that turned into a "serial hookup" before they eventually made any serious commitment to each other. The majority of college students in relationships were juniors and seniors, when it "seemed more socially acceptable to be in relationships," said Dr. Freitas.
"Many of them," Dr. Freitas said, "had a really hard time identifying a hookup experience that was positive for them or wasn't just kind of 'blah.' They were either very ambivalent to the experience or often very sad and regretful."
"Students want to talk about dating and romance and other options," she said, "where the hookup is one possibility among many different possibilities.
"The Hookup Generation: A Primer for Parents and Teenagers," a talk by Dr. Donna Freitas, will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, December 2 at the Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road, Southampton. To reserve a seat free of charge, visit myrml.org or call 283-0074, ext. 523.


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United Way of Fayette County
428 Water Street
Connersville, IN 47331
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Fayette County
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OPEN INDIANA - 5 Stages graph (still in Stage 4.5)
CORONAVISUS Update - 7/31/20 Click for "Rent, Morgage, Utility Assistance"
Important IN State Resources HERE.
Fayette County Essential Business directory: click HERE for list. Food Pantries & Other Providers in Fayette County: complete list.
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A weather system heading into the area from the west coast will hit western Montana Thursday afternoon, September 5, with the full thunderstorm package.
Forecaster Luke Robinson with the National Weather Service office in Missoula said early Thursday morning that these storms will be arriving in mid-afternoon.
"We could see some strong thunderstorms with winds gusting to over 50 miles per hour and some with small hail," Robinson said. "One of the concerns will be heavy rains, and some local flash-flooding could occur, especially in areas where there are burn scars."
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According to The American Institute of Stress, finding one single definition of stress is difficult, since everyone experiences it in their own way. We can reference the age-old Epictetus quote that says, "people are disturbed not by a thing, but by their perception of a thing." If we subscribe to this ideology, we can see how the statistics for stress are on the rise, with the latest numbers averaging 70% of the United States population experiencing symptoms of stress. Not only that, but these symptoms have turned to physical manifestations in the body in the form of disease, as well as mental health disorders, such as depression and anxiety.((Daily Life: What is Stress?)) In our fast-paced world, finding stress is easy. With too much going on, and too many tasks to handle, stress is the simple by-product of having too much on our plate, with not enough hours in the day. The leading causes of stress have become work/career, money, and the future of the world (whether politically or socially within local communities). Stress at work has become the unfortunate driving force, with an estimated 80% of workers reporting a stressful work environment.((Global Organization for Stress: Stress Facts)) When we're feeling stressed, there are a number of physiological changes that our body undergoes: headaches, fatigue, aches, pains, digestion problems, insomnia, increased blood pressure, clenching of jaw, tightness in the muscles, and many more. Likewise, we develop emotional and mental symptoms, as well, such as agitation, low energy, racing thoughts, anxiety, depression, and panic attacks.((WebMD: Stress Symptoms)) Thankfully, with a plethora of external research on the subject, stress management has become a priority in balancing work, life, and anything in-between. Major global economies, corporations, and organizations have shifted their approach to how we view stress, therefore creating more holistic work-life environments that aid in stress relief. So how can you relieve stress with a few simple techniques?


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Looking for some good horror writing? Now you've got some recommendations - the annual Bram Stoker awards for best horror writing were announced over the weekend.
And the Stoker Winners are:
Novel: Audrey's Door, Sarah Langan (Harper)
First Novel: Damnable, Hank Schwaeble (Jove)
Long Fiction: The Lucid Dreaming, Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
Short Fiction: In The Porches Of My Ears, Norman Prentiss (PS Publishing)
Anthology: He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson, Christopher Conlon (ed.) (Gauntlet Press)
Collection: A Taste of Tenderloin, Gene O'Neill (Apex Book Company)
Non-Fiction: Writers Workshop of Horror, Michael Knost (Woodland Press)
Poetry: Chimeric Machines, Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy Publishing)
Apparently new categories will be added next year, including graphic novel and YA novel. Read about this, and about more authors who were honored this year at the World Horror Convention over at SF Awards Watch.


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More than 2,700 schools - around one in three assessed so far - will have to improve their kitchen facilities if they are to provide free meals for infant school children, figures revealed.
Some require a complete refurbishment, while others need little more than a dishwasher or microwave to give all infant school pupils a free meal from September, a policy announced by the Liberal Democrats last year.
The figures, obtained by the BBC using Freedom of Information laws, found that more than 1,700 schools had no kitchen at all, meaning they will have to have hot meals cooked at nearby schools and brought in or provided by external caterers.
Of the 152 local authorities that provided information, some said their funding allocation was sufficient to carry out the improvements, while others said they would need more.
The Government is providing £150 million to upgrade school kitchens, which Lib Dem sources last month said was expected to be enough to provide the necessary facilities.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg also said that while the free school meals would have to be healthy, rules would not be imposed on whether they always have to be hot, giving rise to claims children will be handed packed lunches.
A Department for Education spokesman told the BBC that free school lunches for all infant children would save parents money, improve pupils' education and ensure more children eat a healthy and nutritious meal at least once a day.
"Universal free school meals have already been shown to work in the pilot schemes run by the Department for Education and Department of Health in 2009," the spokesman said.
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"Schools are receiving a huge amount of support to provide free school meals. We are providing £150m to improve kitchens and dining facilities, as well as an additional £22.5m specifically to help smaller schools to provide these meals."
Schools Minister David Laws said he was "not complacent" about the problems but insisted that most schools were on track to deliver the service.
He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "The anecdotal evidence and the noise that you tend to get will tend to be from what can sometimes be a small minority of schools, and I take their concerns seriously.
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When I put a glEnable(GL_LINE_SMOOTH) in my ES1Renderer.m code it only appears to up the LineWidth by 1 pixel and I get no smoothing. Example if LineWidth is set to 1, with Line_Smooth added it will look identical (at least to me) as if LineWidth was set to 2 and Line_Smooth was NOT enabled.
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Sparking Your Imagination
This story appears in the September 1997 issue of . Subscribe »
When Mary Naylor wants to find new ideas to better promote her business, Capitol Concierge, she looks where most people don't: in the trash. "I collect junk mail and keep it in a box I call `Mary's Ideas'," says the 34-year-old entrepreneur, whose Washington, DC, company sets up concierge services in office-building lobbies to provide business and personal services for tenants and their clients. Last year, her business produced $5.5 million in gross revenues. "I get inspiration from things most people throw away," Naylor explains. "I look for ideas of how people market their product or service, what makes the piece effective and what doesn't. When I want to kick-start my creative processes, I go to my box of ideas to see what's new."
Keeping creative ideas flowing is a challenge entrepreneurs face every day, whether it's by finding ways to lower production costs, motivate employees or stretch dollars during lean times. Fortunately, creativity--that mental energy that spawns new thoughts and problem-solving solutions--isn't a talent reserved for composers, writers and painters.
"Innovation and creativity are not just for artists. These are skills with a direct, bottom-line payoff," says Joyce Wycoff, author of Mindmapping: Your Personal Guide to Exploring Creativity and Problem-Solving (Berkley Books, $8.95, 800-447-2774). "Every person can be taught techniques and behaviors that help them generate more ideas. Unfortunately, these behaviors and techniques are seldom taught in schools or management-training sessions. We need to make a special effort to learn them."
Here are eight proven techniques you can use to sharpen your creative thinking skills and keep your ideas flowing:
1.Start with your own experiences. Working as a placement counselor for a New York City nanny service, Maurice Wingate thought he'd have no problem finding quality child care for his infant son. But when he and his wife went looking for a nanny, he was turned off by many agencies' lax procedures for checking personal references. "I looked at the issue not as a professional, but as a parent. There were many things the agencies should have been doing but weren't," says Wingate, who filled the void by starting Best Domestic Services Agency Inc. in 1993.
Wingate also drew on his personal experiences to carve a niche for Best Domestic in New York City's competitive temporary-care-services industry. Wingate figured other parents might encounter similar problems finding babysitters. "If a client had to attend a last-minute, work-related function or was called out of town unexpectedly, how could he arrange for child care?" Wingate wondered. As a solution, he introduced 24-hour, emergency child care for his clients.
2. Seek other points of view. David Wiggins, president of American Wilderness Experience Inc. in Boulder, Colorado, values input from his wife, Carol, and a network of advisors, including friends, stockholders and past business associates, to generate new ideas for his adventure-travel business. "I find it extremely helpful to get different perspectives from people I respect and trust," he says.
Wiggins called his support team to help expand the company's offerings beyond its summer horseback-riding and river-rafting trips. "To make a business like this go, you need to offer year-round adventure-travel opportunities," he says. "I was strapped for cash and couldn't visit with new guides to discuss new travel options. Carol suggested contacting our current guides and seeing what winter adventures they could offer." The idea worked. One guide who ran summer horseback-riding trips wanted to introduce snowmobiling in Yellowstone National Park.
"That one connection single-handedly gave us the winter program we needed to expand our business, and it's been our strongest trip ever since," Wiggins says. "From there, we've developed trips in Hawaii and Mexico, and are now willing to try new and unusual adventures such as dog sledding and sea kayaking."
Naylor seeks better ways of running Capitol Concierge by talking with owners and managers of noncompeting companies about how they run their businesses. "I'm not a competitor, so people are very receptive. They like to share what they've developed," says Naylor, who spent half a day with the human-resources manager of a company that had a great employee-recruiting program.
3. Listen to your clients. Great ideas can come from the people you're trying to please most: your clients. "I glean helpful information by listening to parents talk about what experiences they'd like their children to have," says Cheryl Beck-Benjamin, founder and co-owner of Happy All Day Inc. and Becky Bailey's Creative Kids in Los Angeles, which offer youngsters after-school classes in art, theater, dance and other subjects. "I got the idea for a cooking class from my partner, Ruthie Bailey, when she was a client," she says.
4. Brainstorm. Many small-business owners brainstorm with employees to generate new ideas for their businesses. "Our management team meets once a week," Wiggins says. "It's an excellent forum to bounce new ideas around. Everyone is asked to submit topics beforehand. We have an agenda and we stay focused."
5. Avoid negative people. Nothing will kill the creative instinct faster than someone who spreads words of doom and gloom with comments like, "We've tried that before" or "It will never work." Doomsayers can be particularly harmful during brainstorming sessions, when employees are expected to share ideas freely. "We don't allow negative thinking at our sessions," Wiggins says. "We let people know that taking risks is acceptable and encouraged, and there is no `stupid' idea."
6. Read. Naylor got the idea for her corporate concierge service from a magazine. "There was an article about a California woman doing something similar, but no one was doing anything like this in Washington," she recalls. So Naylor visited California to check out the woman's operation, and returned to the nation's capital to plan her business.
Donna Chaiet reads business publications to generate ideas for promoting Prepare Inc., her self-defense education business in Los Angeles and New York City. "I read a magazine article that said small-business owners don't have a problem finding new leads, but using the leads they already have," Chaiet says. "The idea hit me: I have 100-plus people coming through my classes every month. Wouldn't it be great for me to sell to them?"
Chaiet now calls each of her students for feedback on his or her class experience. "I ask for referrals; opportunities to do workshops in their area; and leads for media coverage, such as their favorite local newspaper or radio station," she says. "It's great outreach."
7. Play. Taking time to kick back and relax is a great way to keep your creative juices flowing. Some business owners go hiking, work out at the gym, read or take a nap. "I do some of my best thinking in my hot tub at home," Wiggins says. "I sit there, look at the stars and come up with some pretty good ideas."
8. Write it down. Idea-generating entrepreneurs know if you don't record your ideas when they're fresh, chances are you'll forget them entirely. That's why it's important to keep a pen and a pad of paper handy in your office, your car, at your bedside or anywhere else you spend time. "The only problem I have," Wiggins says, "is keeping a dry pad of paper next to the tub."
Freelance writer Carla Goodman described how to convince retailers to stock your product in the August issue of Business Start-Ups.
Boosting Your Brainpower
Want to get your creative energy flowing? Try these great resources:
What a Great Idea!, by Charles Thompson (Harper-Collins, $14, 800-331-3761). Through real-life experiences, Thompson illustrates the four key steps to creativity: freedom, expression, creation and action.
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Business Creativity for the 1990s, by Michael Michalko (Ten-Speed Press, $17.95, 800-841-2665). Michalko explains how business owners and managers can use brainstorming, a "creative idea" committee and other techniques to foster innovation among employees.
"How to Think Outside the Box" is a one-day workshop conducted nationwide by SkillPath Seminars. It offers exercises and techniques to generate new ideas and find innovative solutions to managing your business. The cost is $99 per person. For more information, call (800) 873-7545, ext. 411.
The Creative Education Foundation in Buffalo, New York, promotes innovative approaches to problem solving. It holds an annual Creative Problem Solving Institute seminar and offers a 48-page "Catalog of Creative Resources," which includes dozens of books and tapes to boost your idea power. For more information, call (716) 675-3181.
Contact Sources
American Wilderness Experience Inc., P.O. Box 1486, Boulder, CO 80306, (303) 444-2622
Becky Bailey's Creative Kids, 11301 Olympic Blvd., #110, Los Angeles, CA 90064, (310) 473-6090
Best Domestic Services Agency Inc., 310 Madison Ave., #1517, New York, NY 10017, (212) 685-0351
Capitol Concierge, 1400 I St. N.W., #750, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 223-4765
Prepare Inc., 147 W. 25th St., 8th Fl., New York, NY 10001, (212) 255-0505


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Permanent filters simplify operation of this four-stage oil/water separating
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Oily wastewater enters each filter at the bottom. Large oil globules can't enter the discs' small groves. Instead, they rise to the top of the clear filter housing where they can be drawn off. Smaller oil droplets preferentially cling to the polypropylene discs. They gradually coalesce with other trapped droplets, pass through the core and enter a subsequent filter with smaller grooves where the process is repeated. If wastewater is to be recycled, the fourth stage is normally a 50-aem filter. If it is to be discharged into sewers, a replaceable 5-aem final filter "polishes" the effluent.
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Essentially a calibrated can, the Kipster peak-pressure recorder consists of a cylindrical stainless steel body with a thin Inconel disc braised to one end. Exposed to pneumatic or hydraulic pressure, the disc deforms predictably and permanently. From the depth of deformation, users can determine peak pressure to approximately 3% full-scale accuracy.
Admittedly, Kipsters aren't as accurate as other methods but make up for it in toughness and reliability. Each unit is pressure-tested for linearity. Applications include monitoring down-hole oil-drilling equipment, pressure vessels, and aircraft prototypes as well as back-up pressure surveillance for process industries and equipment warrantee coverage.
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Drinks That Bring Back Memories: Kern's Horchata
The holidays tend to bring back memories. I'm revisiting a few of mine early, as I go through some boxes that I've had in storage for a while.
Many of the things in those boxes date back to my time in Kalispell, Montana, a town of about 20,000 in the northwestern part of the state, where I shared a little duplex with six other guys while I attended Flathead Valley Community College and worked at a local burrito place* before moving south to Texas and then on to finish school in New York City.
I can describe my time in Kalispell with a back seat's worth of objects: A pack of Camels, a tall energy drink, an Arizona iced tea. My beginner's banjo. A plate of biscuits and gravy from Sykes', a shabby old-timers' favorite with ten-cent coffee that's since gone out of business. And, more than anything, a half-gallon carton of Kern's horchata.
Montana might seem like an unlikely place to find horchata, but that's where I tried it first. Kern's horchata isn't exactly like Mexican horchata, which I'd discover later and enjoy less. Kern's is thick and creamy, like melted ice cream, and silted with sugar and cinnamon. I bought it for the first time on a snack run some weekend in the late summer, and kept buying it as temperatures plummeted well below zero and our weekends became more and more about the television in our living room.
I left Kalispell in December, but returned to Montana the following spring to work on a ranch a couple of hours to the south. The first thing that I did when I arrived in northwestern Montanabefore dropping my boxes, before visiting friends, before reporting to workwas head to the store for a carton of Kern's horchata, to mark my return to a place I'd missed dearly. They didn't have it. I went to another grocery store. No. When I had the time, I drove back to our old grocery store in Kalispell. Not there, either.
I have not, in fact, been able to find Kern's horchata anywhere in the years since I left Kalispell. And believe me, I've looked. In Texas, in Arizona, in New Mexico. In Washington and Oregon. In New York City. All over the Southeast. According to the Kern's website, the horchata is available in some of those places. I've been unlucky, I guess. But because it has been so long since I tried that horchataand because I drank so much of it, once, though I don't know what I'd think of it nowit's sure to prompt a rush of snowy memories when I do come across it on a supermarket shelf somewhere. And I look forward to that.
How about you? What are the drinks that take you back to different parts of your lives? The different places you've lived? What drinks remind you of home?
*If you ever find yourselves in that part of the country, by the way, Taco del Sol—a Missoula-based chain of 10 restaurants—is far from authentic, but pretty good; if you visit the Kalispell location, tell them I sent you. I've heard through the grapevine that the owners remember me as the only person who ever wore cowboy boots on the burrito line.
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Three or four years ago a good friend of mine had a fun bachelor party consisting of visiting ten bars and pubs along the N-Juda Muni tram line: a "PubCrawl". And crawling we did, in fact we didn't make it past the seventh pub. Quite the night, but that is where I got the idea for the name SketchCrawl when a few months later I decided to do a whole day of intense drawing around the city.
The basic idea: to record nonstop everything I could around me with my pencil and watercolors. A drawn journal filled with details ranging from the all the coffee I drank to the different buses I took. After a whole day of drawing and walking around the city the name seemed quite fitting: "SketchCrawl" – a drawing marathon. The crawl was more tiring than I imagined but also more fun and exciting than I had thought. Giving yourself this kind of mandate for a full day changes the way you look around you. It makes you stop and see things just a tad longer, just a bit deeper … needless to say I loved it.
I soon figured out it was much more interesting to do the marathon with a group of artists instead of all by myself! And so SketchCrawl turned communal. After a whole day of drawing it proved to be amazingly interesting and inspiring to share and compare other people's drawings and thoughts. Different takes on our surroundings, different details, different sensibilities.
The next step was making the SketchCrawl a World Wide event: having people from different corners of the world join in a day of sketching and journaling and then, thanks to the Internet, having everyone share the results on an online forum.
So here it is, we have a website now, a few Crawls behind me, some by myself some with friends and artists from around the world … and hopefully plenty SketchCrawls ahead of us.
– Enrico Casarosa, San Francisco, California – February 2006
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Mel-magic says:
amazing….. when is the next one on ???? I'm in Australia, and have a heap of friends interested. Love the idea of 'sketch-crawl'. After serving alcohol in bars, for 22yrs, and seeing my fair share of pub-crawls….. and eradicated brain cells, it's a welcome relief to use the 'crawl' to connect brain cells, and people, in a positive expression of viewing daily life…… not through the bottom of a beer glass !!! Beauty is NOT in the eye of the beer-holder.
Love your work…..
Marthajane Cassidey says:
My first sketchcrawl was today and it was fun! We sketched at the old downtown library in Mobile, Alabama,which has so many lovely details just waiting to be drawn!
Julia says:
I love sketching. Is there anyone in West Sussex, Engand, who likes sketching too ?
Kristine Henshaw says:
Is there a group that meets in Los Angeles? Thanks
ineke says:
How can i participate with the sketch crawl>??? or do i just start my own??? Great idea, love the thought of doing it with a group of friends.
jeff hagen says:
great idea, is there anyone in the midwest doing this? if so please include me on your e mail or face book list.
jeff hagen artist/writer
Pauline Tolentino says:
I just love all art work of you folks who are doing this wonderful thing . I am a senior lady , and like to call myself a neophyte artist . However , I cannot get out there (on the road) to enjoy the sketching with the crowd . Much good luck to all , and enjoy . Thanks for everything .
Steve Carroll says:
Hi, I am organising a Sketchcrawl in Brighton, East Sussex, UK on Saturday 7th September. I have a map and timings. How do I publicise it on your site?
All the best,
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On Friday, September 27, CFPs Jeffrey and Kimberly Camarda amended their federal lawsuit (in the Washington, D.C. Circuit) against the CFP Board, asking the Court to vacate the Board's pending disciplinary action against them; to enjoin the Board from issuing a press release about it; and to award them actual and punitive damages, to be determined.
Their amended complaint states, in part, that the Camardas: "…have been injured, and continue to be injured, in their business, including injuries to their good reputation, good will, established business relationships, income, business designations and certifications, and current and future business relationships."
Readers of this blog will remember the Camardas as the CFPs who, in defending themselves against a CFP Board sanction for inaccurately describing themselves as "fee-only," pointed out that three Board members, including then-chairman Alan Goldfarb, had similar business situations while also claiming fee-only status—resulting in the resignations of all three.
The actual basis of the Camardas' defense (as I understand it) is that although they wholly own both an RIA and an insurance agency, the RIA can rightly be described as "fee-only" because each firm was established as a separate corporation under Florida law, and therefore the Board was wrong to construe them as "functionally one organization," which isn't fee-only.
This is one of those cases that I personally have a hard time with: when the claims being made seem so patently ridiculous that my mind doesn't want to take them seriously. Yet upon a thorough rereading of the complaint, the Camarda case may be more serious than it first appeared. It challenges both the CFP Board's right to set its own standards for holders of the CFP designation and, by extension, the rights of any organization (NAPFA?) or regulatory body to hold that the "only" in "fee-only" extends to "related parties."
Should the Board lose the suit, I fear that the term "fee-only" will lose its connotation for consumer-oriented, unbiased advice.
In a Sep. 29 release date, the Camardas, through Donald Hannaford of Hadron Media Group, described their suit this way: "We requested leave of Court to amend our complaint in the lawsuit to allege claims against the Board for breach of contract, unfair competition, and violations of the antitrust statute based upon what we believe are the Board's inappropriate and unjustified threats to sanction stemming from unwarranted accusations of misconduct against us."
Strong stuff. The complaint itself contains equally strong language and allegations. However, despite all the legal bluster, the Camardas' arguments in defense of their use of the "fee-only" description remains conspicuously thin. In a revealing section of their complaint, they contend: "…every current or prospective client of Camarda [Wealth Advisors] and/or Camarda Consultants [the brokerage agency] receives a written disclosure statement regarding the services provided by each separate entity and the compensation each entity might receive for its services. All prospective clients of Camarda Advisors and/or Camarda Consultants have been required to sign this statement."
Maybe I'm missing something here, but this section appears to make it unavoidably clear that the RIA and the insurance agency were sharing clients. In another section, they maintain that the two firms "didn't share revenues." As if that mattered. There is no denial that the couple owns both companies, and sit on the boards of both.
It's also telling that the Board's own restriction against "fee-only" advisors affiliating or owning interests on commission-charging "related parties," isn't mentioned in their complaint except in a confusing reference to a CFP Board "pronouncement that its 'fee-only' definition specifically excluded 'related parties.'"
With all that said, the CFP Board is right to take this lawsuit seriously. Courts have made favorable rulings on even flimsier evidence. Should the court find against the Board in this case, the consequences for the Board and for the advisory profession could be dramatic. In a final, ironic note, the Camardas' complaint also reveals that following notice of the Board's investigation, the Camardas "revised Camarda Advisors' website to remove all reference to 'fee-only,'" and also revised their ADV accordingly. It was only after "The CFP Board indicated its intentions to publish the Public Letter [of sanction] on the Internet and in local newspapers…" anyway, that the Camardas filed their suit.
I know; I won't say it. Let's just hope the Board hasn't overplayed its hand.


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NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope has spotted something which should interest every physicist. Looking at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, Fermi has unequivocally showed a bright gamma-ray glow. Scientists have then removed all known gamma-ray sources and, while it removes quite a bit of the contributing source, it still leaves a bit unaccounted for. We don't know what's causing this excess gamma ray glow. Given that gamma rays are some of the most energetic radiations known, it is unlikely that they are caused by some thermal event. The best explanation at the moment is that something unknown – some unknown particles – are annihilating each other and giving off these radiations. The question is then, what are these particles.
These particles ought to be quite heavy; the gamma ray emission hints at their mass. One very likely explanation for these particles is that they are Dark Matter particles. Humorously called WIMPs, short for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, these heavy particles are likely candidates for Dark Matter (DM). In other words, the gamma ray lines seen by NASA's Fermi telescope are because of DM annihilation.
Dark Matter 101
But what is DM you ask? DM is conjectured to be a type of matter beyond which we already know about, responsible for about 27% of the total mass-energy of the Universe. It was first hypothesized by Fritz Zwicky to explain why some galaxies can actually rotate as fast as they do without breaking apart. He surmised that there must be some invisible form of matter, which does not have any electromagnetic interaction, and thus doesn't give off light, but are massive and, thus, can interact via the gravitational force. Today that conjecture stands on firmer grounds, with observations of known deviation from expected rotation speeds spanning thousands of galaxies. DM has been indirectly hinted at by many experiments such as the CoBE, WMAP and the recent Planck experiment, which all map out the distribution of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation in our Universe. A host of other experiments also detect strong anomalies which can be easily explained away by the DM hypothesis.
In other words, we are quite sure that DM exists.
The clinching evidence would be to a actually detect it and one way is to let it annihilate each other into two known particles. These two particles then annihilate and produce some radiation which we can detect. The heavier the DM particles, the more energetic the final radiation; thus by knowing the final states, we can figure out the masses of the initial particles.
It is to be noted that no-one is jumping up and saying that DM has been found. While the evidence is highly suggestive, it's not yet clinching, because, as most scientists like to say, not enough data has been collected. They would conservatively err on the side of mundane humility rather than make a mistake making an extraordinary claim.
Keep watching this space for more.
The official paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6703
The following video was released by NASA:


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Located on the west side of the city of Chicago and serving a population base of 750,000 people, Sinai Health System consists of several member organizations located in a four square block main campus: Mount Sinai Hospital, Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, Sinai Children's Hospital, Sinai Community Institute, Sinai Medical Group, and Sinai Urban Health Institute. Our newest member of the organization is Holy Cross Hospital, a 274-licensed bed community hospital that provides multidisciplinary services. Sinai has a number of clinics that are located on the west and south sides of Chicago. There is also one facility, Sinai's Touhy Clinic on the north side of Chicago, which sees refugees from many nations (for example Sudan, Iraq and Burma) as well as resident Orthodox Jewish and Russian populations. With the exception of the Touhy Clinic, Sinai Health System serves primarily African-American and Latino patients.
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For a more streamlined look, consider the Kartell Magic Hole Sofa. This is a wonderful piece to set out on the front porch for curb appeal, waving to neighbors and watching the world go by. It also will give a hint to your modern and/or contemporary interior from the street. Currently on sale for $935 from $1100 through June 8, 2014.
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As it happens, I do not mind them too much, so I found the film to be a relatively painless experience. But Boyle has an ingrained jitteriness that I always have to get past in order to enjoy any of his movies. Sometimes I'm successful, but I still always have to do it. In the case of 127 Hours, I got the sense that the jitteriness was being deployed in order to achieve some kind of Koyanisqaatsi-esque global connection to Aron's plight. This he fails to achieve, and doesn't need to be messing around with that stuff anyway, because it's not hard to imagine oneself partially crushed by a rock and unable to extract yourself, and think "What would I do?" Further – and this is a script thing, which Boyle wrote with Simon Beaufoy – Franco's epiphany that he was sort of a selfish dick before a rock fell on him rings terribly hollow, probably because the conceit of 127 Hours is that Franco records everything he thinks or feels onto his little camera dealy that he brought along. Which in terms of depicting the way people live their lives these days is certainly fair enough, but on the level of using the medium of film to convey character and emotion, is kind of a bit of a rip.
Franco is fine, by the way. He's right at home with Boyle's aesthetic, which is maybe not the biggest compliment you can pay to an actor, but at least they mesh. Franco does not deliver the tour de force some have claimed – my goodness he acted all alone for a lot of the time! – because Boyle makes it very easy for him, in ways already covered. Franco's, and the film's, single best moment comes when that arm finally pulls free from the rest of his body. Boyle drops the sound and deflates the tension into anti-climax as Franco stumbles backwards, free, and totally baffled. The plan worked, but still somehow makes no sense.
Tony Manero (d. Pablo Larrain) - This Chilean film from 2008 comes with a lot of notoriety -- infamy, you might say -- due to the graphic nature of its story about a middle aged man named Raul (Alfredo Castro) who, in 1978, during the Pinchoet regime, has become obsessed with the film Saturday Night Fever, as well as brutally convinced that he himself is a South American version of John Travolta's character. The graphic stuff is supposed to be the violence, because Raul is, if not technically a serial killer, still a remorseless and casual one, but what I ultimately found most interesting about Tony Manero is how the film treats Raul's violence with the same air of insignificant digression -- note, please, that I did not say transgression -- as Raul does himself.
This isn't to say there's no savagery or satisfaction to Raul's killings, just that there might not be. He's pretty stone-faced when he goes about it, after all, and they're all a means to an end anyway. That end being the purchase of glass floor, similar to the one at the disco in Saturday Night Fever, for the stage at the beat-up little night club where he works and performs, and for which he is planning a big Tony Manero-esque dance-off (Raul also hopes to win the upcoming Tony Manero look-a-like contest for a local TV variety show). Then, too, there is the fact that the brutal-murder-with-a-tired-sigh vibe of the whole ties in with a central idea, which is that Raul can bash in the heads of whoever he wants, and with Pinochet in charge no one will notice anything amiss.
This is a good idea, or a good joke, if you prefer, but not necessarily something you'd be advised to build a whole movie on. Larrain doesn't, thankfully, and in the end Tony Manero (which, by the way, I did not find to be egregiously violent in any way, and therefore I'm baffled by its reputation; still, though, don't take the kids) is a grim little snapshot, or maybe a portrait of a week in the life of the second worst person in Chile.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (d. Brad Bird) - I wondered out loud recently how common is it for the third and fourth movies in a franchise to be the best ones. Almost never, was the aggregate answer, but the Mission: Impossible films have achieved the, at least, highly unlikely, because part three, directed by J. J. Abrams, was a lean and fun little action movie, buoyed by the inspired casting of Philip Seymour Hoffman in the Bond villain role, that trumped franchise predecessors Brian Freakin' DePalma and Goddamn John Woo For Christ's Sake, and now Brad Bird, known before strictly for his animated films for Pixar, like The Incredibles, and elsewhere, like The Iron Giant, bests even Abrams. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is simply fantastic. It really never lets up, almost at all, save for a brief period of regrouping following Bird's magnificent Dubai set-piece, but otherwise the film, which finds Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt and the rest of what's left of IMF trying to pull together what little they have after being, by necessity, cut loose by the US government, is aggressive in its desire to keep the adrenaline flowing. The group, made up of Cruise, Paula Patton, Jeremy Renner, and Simon Pegg, not only have to stop the rogue Russian "nuclear extremist" that is their enemy, but they have to do it in secret, because they've been smeared as villains in the cutting-loose process.
So that's the set up, and the movie just sings. I've heard complaints that the villain, Hendricks, is not much of a presence, which is sort of true, I guess, but two things keep me from agreeing totally. For one, the film's showdown between Hunt and Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist) in a Mumbai parking garage reveals, in small doses, the character's dangerous mania pretty nicely (too little too late, perhaps, but I thought it worked). And for another thing, outside of the film's wonderful action filmmaking, which is as precise and clear and ambitious and thrilling as you could want, the film's chief pleasure for me was the group of heroes. Up to now, the Mission: Impossible series has taken some well-earned lumps for being The Tom Cruise Program, starring Tom Cruise, while the show on which they've been based was more about the team. Brad Bird, for the first time, gets that, and while Cruise is the unquestionable leader, nobody, not Patton or Pegg or Renner, is left behind. It's a good team, and the actors have great chemistry together. This is the kind of film that should have kicked off the whole franchise. I'd hate to think of them pulling the plug just when it all started working finally.


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EDMONTON — There is a surety about geese flying that humans admire.
While waiting to catch a ferry at Puget Sound, poet David Whyte saw a gaggle of geese shoot up into the sky. It was an astounding sight and, seeing them, a collective sigh went over the crowd. The birds, with each set of wing beats, formed a faultless V, and were soon flying high on a strong current, in perfect formation.
"When humans see geese migrating, they are looking at one part of creation that knows exactly where it belongs. The geese know when it's time to lift their wings and leave the place they're staying," said Whyte.
The geese were confident about the direction they were flying. They had absolute certainty about their plans and goals.
Whyte was the keynote speaker at Covenant Health's annual general meeting, held Oct. 5 at Delta Edmonton South. He lives in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He holds a degree in marine biology, working as a naturalist guide in the Galapagos Islands, and leading anthropological expeditions in the Andes, the Amazon and the Himalayas.
Whyte expounded on themes found in two of his nine books, The Three Marriages and Life at the Frontier.
He examined the notion of the work/life balance, as well as leadership through courageous conversation. He used poetry and thoughtful commentary to illustrate how people can foster qualities of courage, a quality needed in relationships and in today's workplace.
When it comes to the three marriages (work, self and relationships), important decisions must be made. Unlike the geese, however, people do not possess that same surety of their goals or how to achieve them. They do not always know what direction to take. There is a need to take that courageous first step, shed one's old skin and prepare for the next challenge.
"In the workplace, one of the real dynamics of leadership is that we must eventually get to the point where we leave behind the initial call of technical competency for which we were first recruited or hired for originally.
"Almost always you're promoted into the field of key human relationships," said Whyte.
He holds workshops on this subject through the Institute for Conversational Leadership, which was created as a response to the extreme challenges confronting business leaders.
Why is it difficult for individuals to be courageous? People are inclined to turn away from conflict and avoid confrontation.
To be afraid and to doubt in the face of danger is human. Whether in relationships, the workplace, or when striving to make changes within oneself, people tend to hope that problems will fix themselves rather than dealing with them head-on.
"Why is it so easy for human beings to turn away? It's because human beings cannot really comprehend how much disappearance and loss there is in life," said Whyte.
People have prized possessions taken from them, friends move away, marriages disintegrate and loved ones die. About half of life, said Whyte, involves letting go of someone or something we cherish.
"A courageous conversation is a human feat that involves turning towards both sides of life, embracing what is given to you but also what is being taken away at the same time," he said.
In Matthew 14.22-23, Jesus asked Peter to step out of the boat, and Peter demonstrated faith by showing courage and taking that risky first step.
"Whenever you take a courageous first step, you always feel that you are stepping onto a surface that will not hold your weight — that's why it's courageous," said Whyte.
The AGM also featured the premiere of a short video celebrating the Catholic sisters who have served Alberta for over 150 years. The video is viewable on Covenant Health's website (www.covenanthealth.ca).
Whyte said the sisters epitomized courage and made strides in health care, education and social work that no one else at the time would dare try.


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CLEVELAND -- Since the Browns included no comment from coach Eric Mangini or General Manager George Kokinis in their official announcement of the signing of free agent receiver Mike Furrey, here are my thoughts:
• They no doubt have a good idea by now that Donte Stallworth will not be available to play in 2009. Although the Browns have no official legal counsel on staff -- a somewhat glaring omission for an NFL club these days -- it's not unreasonable to assume that Lew Merletti, the senior vice president and 25-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service, is all over this one. Stallworth has been away from the team for weeks to defend himself against a DUI manslaughter charge in Miami.
• It's important to remember that Brian Robiskie and Mohamed Massaquoi are, after all, rookies. If one of the second-round draft picks comes through as a meaningful contributor in the offense in his first season, that would be good. To expect both of them to do so is unrealistic. It rarely happens in the NFL that two rookie receivers on the same team have productive first seasons.
• Until proven otherwise, we've got to assume a trade of Braylon Edwards is still being explored. Surely he's not scoring points with Mangini by missing the "voluntary" offseason conditioning workouts. Perhaps the Browns are bracing for the possibility of Edwards also skipping the two "voluntary" minicamps scheduled later this month. Securing a No. 1 pick in 2010 for Edwards now would give the Browns some comfort moving forward.
• If Edwards does not return, the Browns have a lack of speed at the wideout position. Robiskie and Massaquoi -- again, they're rookies -- run decent for their size, but they won't be getting behind many NFL corners. Furrey, 32, is a possession receiver. David Patten will be 35 when the season starts. As for the other receivers returning from last year's roster -- Paul Hubbard, Syndric Steptoe, Lance Leggett -- I haven't heard Mangini or Kokinis mention any of their names since they've been on the job.
• Perhaps the Browns are merely adding competition to the receiver position. But it's odd that they aren't doing the same at running back.
By the end of the day, the Browns formally promoted George McDonald to receivers coach. McDonald, who was receivers coach at University of Minnesota the past two years, joined Mangini's staff on Feb. 11 as offensive quality control coach.